Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Editor Spencer Davidson visited the Deep South for the first time since serving as Atlanta bureau chief in the 1960s-and returned North startled at the changes in Birmingham. Washington Correspondent Simmons Fentress, who did much of the political reporting, speaks with a pronounced North Carolina drawl, but a Mississippi lady told him, "I knew you weren't from the South." Washington Correspondent Arthur White toured the South for several weeks to report on the good life. One memorable locale: Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp...
Nation Head Researcher Margaret Boeth, whose family has lived in Mississippi for seven generations, left the South for New York 19 years ago. "When I first arrived and people asked me where I was from, I'd say New York," she laughs. "It was ludicrous, in view of my accent. Now I proudly say I'm from Mississippi...
...image been entirely fictional?far from it. Yet V.O. Key had a point when he wrote in his definitive Southern Politics a quarter-century ago: "Northerners, provincials that they are, regard the South as one large Mississippi." Only now is that view changing. The South, of course, was never one large Mississippi. Indeed, Mississippi was never one large Mississippi...
...BILLY JOE, an extrapolation on Bobbie Gentry's 1967 back-country ballad about the young boy who jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge, is a nice surprise. Director Max Baer (Macon County Line) has a good, close feeling for the rural South, and the movie-shot on location in Mississippi-is careful about people, sharp in selecting and using details of landscape: hushed green fields, a sinuous, umbilical river, a house perched on the edge of woods as if waiting to be enfolded in the trees. Herman Raucher's screenplay concerns the real reason Billy Joe threw himself...
Fashion freaks will soon see her in some fancy Vogue photographs by Richard Avedon. TV viewers, however, will catch Actress Deborah Raffin with her hair down and plastered top-to-toe in Mississippi mud. Raffin's dive was all for the sake of Nightmare in Badham County, a TV movie in which she plays a prison-farm escapee on the run through the swamps. Raffin, 23, who last starred in a Hollywood turkey overgenerously titled Once Is Not Enough, says the gooey assignment was "the best role" she had ever been offered: "It gave me a chance, I hope...